Base of Operations: An unnamed city, on an
undetermined planet, in an unspecified extradimensional realm

First Appearance: The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad
(September, 2001)

Powers/Abilities: Jihad is approximately 25' tall and
possesses superhuman strength (Class 25?) and durability. He has a variety of
magical powers, including interdimensional travel, teleportation across space,
physical transformation transforming others into inanimate wood (and possibly
other materials), breathing magical flame, levitation, formation of shields, and
casting various spells.

Height: 25'Weight: 10 tons

History:
Jihad's origins are unknown.

(The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad (fb) - BTS) - Jihad
conquered an unnamed city, the premier metropolis of its world, taking over the
former palace of its caliph and enslaving its people, breaking their spirits.

(The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad (fb) - BTS) - Jihad sought
to obtain four magical items--the All-Seeing Eye, Crystal Casque, Gauntlet of
Forever, and Mallet of Destiny--which he could use in a spell to grant himself
great magical power so that he could conquer all of reality. He enlisted/coerced
countless heroes over an undetermined span of time to obtain these items, but
each met with failure.

(The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad (fb) - BTS) - Under
unspecified circumstances, Jihad defeated the legendary adventurer Sinbad and
took his daughter Dione prisoner. Jihad transformed them both into wood and
mounted Sinbad as the figurehead on his own ship. Still maintaining sentience,
Sinbad learned from an oracle of the existence of the Fantastic Four on
Earth-616, and he used his own mystical powers to influence Jihad's mind so he
would seek out and recruit them, hoping that they could assist in Jihad's
defeat.

(The
Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad) - Jihad sent four elementals against the
Fantastic Four (Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic, Thing), but the
heroes managed to destroy them. However, they then realized that Jihad has also
sent another agent, a powerful giant hydra to capture the F4's family and
friends--Caledonia, Franklin Richards, the teenage Valeria, and their Puppy. The
Four attacked the hydra to no avail, and Jihad then appeared, subduing the
entire group and transporting them aboard Sinbad's ship--actually a transformed
Jihad. Translating notes on the ship, they learned that they were to obtain the
four items of power, which they did in order to play along, see what developed,
and hopefully take advantage on any opportunity that might present itself.
A series of adventures led the FF to successfully collect the
items, at which point Jihad revealed himself, transforming back from ship form,
and revealing Caledonia, Franklin, and Valeria to be his captives, trapped in
wooden form. As Jihad taunted them that they must continue to aid him if they
wished to see their friends and family alive again, Sinbad influenced the Thing
to snatch his wooden form from Jihad, restoring Sinbad to normal. Jihad
vanished, taking the other statues with him, and returning to the city he held
as his base, where he began to make preparations to cast the spell and gain his
long sought power.
Sinbad led the FF to ensnare a Rukh (Roc, a giant bird) and
force it to bring them to Jihad, who was in mid-spell, having drawn out the life
essence of his captives and utilized the magic items in their proper
preparation. Just as Jihad prepared to strike the Crystal Casque with the Mallet
of Destiny to unleash the power, Puppy transported Sue to Jihad's side, and she
protected the Casque with a force field. The others then assaulted Jihad,
keeping him off balance and preventing him from focusing his power on Sue. When
Ben smashed Jihad into the sea, Sinbad took the short time they were granted to
guide the FF to use the four items of power to return the souls of Caledonia,
Dione, Franklin, and Valeria. As Jihad reached to destroy them all, Ben used the
Mallet to shatter the Casque, and the energies, lacking the proper preparation
or the souls to contain them, were unleashed upon Jihad, banishing him from the
mortal plane.

Comments: Created by Chris Claremont, Pascual Ferry,
and Scott Hanna

If you want me to add tons of info about
Sinbad to this profile...don't bother. Wait until Sinbad gets his own profile.
At any rate, though Sinbad is apparently of extradimensional origin (or at least
dwells in an extradimensional realm currently), he did have some adventures on
Earth-616 in the past.
:)

Jihad means a fanatical campaign for or
against an idea; crusade. It is most often referred to with reference to Moslems
against unbelievers or the enemies of Islam, carried out as a religious duty.
That's what Webster says, anyway.

Webster is right and wrong to a certain extent. From an
western point of view, a jihad is a fanatical campaign or a crusade, but it
literally means "striving" or "struggle," though it is used
by most people to mean a religious/political holy war of sorts. However, it's
true definition is not political at all and is more of a personal struggle
and much more in a person's mind than in the physical world. The truer meaning
of Jihad would be a war to better oneself, while the western view of the word
would be an external war with opposite sides fighting. In fact, a internal and
external war are called the greater and lesser Jihad respectively. --Stunner